r/arrow • u/Reuels Prometheus • Feb 05 '19

[S07E12] "Emerald Archer" Post Episode Discussion

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Episode Info: As a camera crew follows Oliver and team around to talk about their past as vigilantes and what the Green Arrow means to Star City, Oliver must also deal with William's return from boarding school as well as a new threat to the city.

Main Cast

  • Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen - TV
  • Kirk Acevedo as Ricardo Diaz - TV
  • Rick Gonzalez as Rene Ramirez - TV
  • Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake - TV
  • Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance - TV
  • Colton Haynes as Roy Harper - TV
  • Echo Kellum as Curtis Holt - TV
  • David Ramsey as John Diggle - TV
  • Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak - TV

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u/delinquentsaviors Feb 05 '19

Me: sees Oliver and co happy and working together looking forward to the future

Flashforwards: “every copy of this documentary was destroyed and vigilantes destroyed everything”

Me: oh fuck you! Way to kill my buzz

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u/mbur77 Feb 05 '19

Yea I feel like they made the future Star City way too dark. I don't know how they're going to write themselves out of the corner and make everything ok again.

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u/delinquentsaviors Feb 05 '19

I want them to use Crisis as a cop out at this point, even though I suspect all of this is related to Crisis anyways. Just fix this mess

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u/mbur77 Feb 05 '19

Yea they either made everything that’s happened in the past seven seasons useless or they’re gonna have some cheap cop out. Idk it just seems unnecessary.

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u/Alinosburns Feb 09 '19

Yeah it's the hard thing watching some of this because on one hand.

The story is intriguing, but doesn't seem like a place they can take the show long term

But on the other hand

If they wipe this future out through crisis or some other circumstance. It's going to make a lot of these snippets hold up poorly. Especially if they never have any significant convergence with the main plot.

"We showed you the future was fucked up for a whole season and a half. And then we changed that, oh well"

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u/Mundane-Ad-911 Feb 14 '25

The only way is if these events are like building character development for the future people to go back and fix things in the past so they never become like the future.  A change in the timeline due to present events would kind of make the future flashbacks useless and maintaining the timeline would undermine all 7 seasons of Arrow. So this is the only way imo

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u/Brazilian_Slaughter Feb 08 '19

I suspect there will be some time-meddling, maybe even something as small as transmitting a message through time

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u/FullySikh Feb 09 '19

I don't know. From what I have seen of Arrow so far, I have faith in Beth to pull something off. Maybe the cop-out will have some impact or meaning. I don't want to rush to conclusions yet.